{"id":345639,"date":"2026-03-14T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/345639\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:48:09","slug":"adrian-weckler-ai-was-meant-to-save-us-time-instead-its-giving-us-brain-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/345639\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: AI was meant to save us time \u2013 instead it\u2019s giving us brain fry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs the bot overlords become ever more embedded in our daily work, the promise of efficiency is actually creating a new kind of burnout\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brain fry: AI can cut down the time it takes to do something but workers are getting more tasks to oversee. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tyImages_2215157591.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brain fry: AI can cut down the time it takes to do something but workers are getting more tasks to oversee. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Claude this, Gemini that, ChatGPT the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s growing evidence that asking people to use too much AI at work is creating \u2018brain fry\u2019 \u2013 the feeling of being overwhelmed and burned out from being tasked with overseeing too many AI engines, processes or accelerated tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the bot overlords become ever more embedded in our daily work, the promise of efficiency is actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[8819,220,218,219,61,60,279,80],"class_list":["post-345639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}